Dust Bowl

Janette-Susan Bailey holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia and has a combined Honors degree in Film, Theatre and Performance Studies / Environmental Studies. She has a background in environmental performance writing and has been nationally and internationally recognized for her cross disciplinary approaches to historical research. She has published in international journals including Environment and History.

• .Chapter One: Ideas: American exceptionalism, social realism, women, deserts, documentary, soil and civilization.-.Chapter Two: Three Dust Bowl narratives: farmer attitudes, human erosion, women and natural diaster.-.Chapter Three: Battlefield of the South-West Pacific: soil erosion, enemies, graziers and traitors in Australian 'dust bowl' imagery.-.Chapter Four: The Australian constitution and state politics: creeping deserts and human extinction in 'Dust bowl' warnings of impending doom.- .Chapter Five: Dust Storms and "the despair of the housewife": war-time wind erosion as 'natural diaster'.-.Chapter Six: "Battle of the rivers," battle of the stories: 'Dust bowls', dams, TVAs and a Snowy Mountains Scheme.-.Conclusion: "Just a 'Bloody Duststorm'?".

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